Today will be the first day of this one month long learning challenge. Initially I had thought of using substack for publishing my daily learning notes, but obsidian seems like a much better idea for further refinement and continued learning.

A list of interesting points

  • Humans are a mathematical anomaly1
    • do we romanticise being made of stardust? short answer, yes.
  • singularity is a tricky concept. highly possible for it not to exist.
  • there is a smallest unit of time. one Planck time.
  • grand unified force is a khichdi of electromagnetic, gravitation, weak and strong force.
    • what is the naming convention being weak and strong forces?
  • Information cannot travel faster than light but space can.
  • where does mass come from
    • Higgs Field being massless vs gaining non zero potential
  • There are more particles than anti particles
    • this is a huge reason for why the universe is the way it is
  • Big Bang Nucleosynthesis
  • Cosmic Microwave Background
  • Quantum mechanics predicts all the elements in the periodic table2

Footnotes

Footnotes

  1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YCQPw9pbZnk

  2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tq_y1qOmUBE